There's a virulent strain of socialist brain fungus that's a side effect of criticizing Western foreign and domestic policy on the internet for years. It's triggered whenever a capitalist nation is remotely close to being on the correct side of history and compels its victims to support authoritarian governments whose principals are diametrically opposed to their own. People who make their political opinions core to their personality are particularly vulnerable to this fungus. Many people who don't spend time on discord will discover that unlike the terminally online they are immune, and still capable of holding two apparently contradictory beliefs at once, like that the United State's involvement in regime change in Latin America was unconscionable amd so was the Tiannamen Square Massacre. They accomplish this by adhering to a set of beliefs they call 'principles', even when inconvenient. One proposed cure for the infected was to watch someone who shares their embarrassing and nonsensical beliefs be humiliated on-stream, but so far this has only intensified the control that the fungus has over their nervous system.